Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
$27.99 Read more“Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the gu
- Author: Verdelle, A. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0063031663
- Language: English
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Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
$34.95 Read moreIn this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler,
- Author: Kerns, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1647690153
- Language: English
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Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
$14.95 Read moreA warm and invigorating memoir about a daughter’s love for her father and her appreciation for how he and others changed the game of football forever.
Gene Washington’s football career ended long befor
- Author: Washington, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1542016665
- Language: English
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Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories
$18.99 Read moreA lyrical, vibrant picture book tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes
Pura’s abuela always has a cuento to share- Author: Pimentel, Annette Bay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1419749412
- Language: English
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: Adapted for Young Adults
$12.99 Read moreThis inspiring memoir, now adapted for young adults, chronicles Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 phenom Kwame Onwuachi’s incredible and odds-defying fame in the food world after a tough … [more below]
- Author: Onwuachi, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593176030
- Language: English
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We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard
$17.00 Read moreA collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the first anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan.
After de- Author: Shahalimi, Nahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 059347290X
- Language: English
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An Apple for Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Read moreBest Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College
One day I am going to be free–and I’m going to have all the apples I want.
Like other enslaved African American children, young Harriet Tubman had
- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0807503967
- Language: English
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Strength in What Remains
$18.00 Read moreNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Los Angeles Times – San Francisco Chronicle –Chicago Tribune – The Christian Science Monitor – Publishers Weekly- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977610
- Language: English
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Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life (1860-1975)
$32.00 Read moreWhen the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-sch… [more below]
- Author: Watt, Eva Tulene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0816523916
- Language: English
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Grace Lee Boggs
$29.93 Add to cartHave you ever wanted to change the world so people can live better lives? This biography tells the story of philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs who did just that, part of the Leaders Like Us ser
- Series: Leaders Like Us
- Author: Su, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1731656300
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver
$4.99 Add to cartTake a bite into the fascinating history of peanut butter and the man who invented it. Through leveled text and engaging photos, kids meet George Washington Carver and learn about his important work w… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426322852
- Language: English
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Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!
$12.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction
“On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scoti
- Author: Warner, Jody Nyasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 177306035X
- Language: English
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Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
$15.95 Read moreAn intimate account of Paris-born author Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States, where-after drifting from Boston to the West Coast and back-he wound up in New York City and became deeply… [more below]
- Author: Marcade, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1941110495
- Language: English
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Dear White Friend: The Realities of Race, the Power of Relationships and Our Path to Equity
$21.95 Read moreMy friend, I do not believe you are a racist.
Melvin Gravely eloquently accomplishes what many have undoubtedly wished to do: talk openly to someone we know about race in the United States today. Gra- Author: Gravely II Phd, Melvin J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1626348766
- Language: English
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How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story
$26.95 Read moreThe first memoir about the “reeducation” camps by a Uyghur woman.
“I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.”
— Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs ha- Author: Haitiwaji, Gulbahar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211483
- Language: English
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Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
$17.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A “funny and frank” (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges–and rewards–of finding one’s way in the… [more below]
- Author: Abdelmahmoud, Elamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 059349685X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
$19.99 Add to cartA 2005 Sibert Honor Book
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea–to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of rea- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618369473
- Language: English
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A Lesson for Martin Luther King Jr.: Ready-To-Read Level 2
$5.99 Read moreLearn all about the childhood of America’s most famous civil rights activist in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read
Young Martin Luther King Jr. is having some problems with his best friend, Bobby.- Series: Ready-To-Read Childhood of Famous Americans
- Author: Pate, Rodney S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0689853971
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
